Quotes about Ethics

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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own hea — Dalai Lama XIV, The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings By and About the Dalai Lama
About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the ap — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which — John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to — Donald Van de Mark, The Good Among the Great: 19 Traits of the Most Admirable, Creative, and Joyous People
I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better tha — Linus Pauling
But with dogs, we do have "bad dog." Bad dog exists. "Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!" The dog is saying, "W — Eddie Izzard, Glorious
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. — Elie Wiesel
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is uncha — George Orwell, 1984
I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law. — Aristotle
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying — René Descartes
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. — Aristotle
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadm — Fulton J. Sheen
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyon — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it. — Albert Camus
The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions ar — John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he — Mary Midgley, Animals and Why They Matter
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is — Epictetus
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility. — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'. — Stefan Molyneux
Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the philosophical knowl — Paracelsus, Paracelsus: Selected Writings